Mr. Googie got us little kids really going. "Today," announced Mr. G., a Grace Church Camp counselor in Palisades Interstate Park 50 years ago, "you're going to see the blue-tailed skink! It's a ...

I know I have written time and time again how funny common names of creatures can be. Sometimes these common names can describe where an animal lives, what time of day it is active or even its ...

Imagine being a predator looking for an easy meal. You spot a small lizard basking on a rock and move in for the attack. At ...

Peter's rock agama is spreading in Florida, and experts fear it may increase your risk of mosquito-borne diseases.

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We live in an age of alarming extinction, in which many species are lost in large part due to human activity. At the same time, the natural world is so complex that even after centuries of research, ...